Question

I have three tables, places, place_user, users. I want to list users according to the place_user table in Place model by using the has_many_and_belongs_to method. But i don’t want to select all columns of users. I tried to do by below:

Place::find(1)->users()->get(array('name','email'));

Also:

Place::find(1)->users()->first(array('name','email'));

but they didn’t work.

What is the best way to handle this?

Place model:

class Place extends Eloquent {
    public static $timestamps = true;

    public function users() {
        return $this->has_many_and_belongs_to('user');
    }
}

User model:

class User extends Eloquent {
    public static $timestamps = true;

    public function get_updated_at_readable() {
        return date('d.m.Y / H:i:s', strtotime($this->get_attribute('updated_at')));
    }

    public function get_created_at_readable() {
        return date('d.m.Y / H:i:s', strtotime($this->get_attribute('updated_at')));
    }

    public function places() {
        return $this->has_many_and_belongs_to('place','place_user');
    }
}

Thanks.

Answer 1

Still, not working with get, first methods but select method is working:

Place::find(1)->users()->select(array('users.name', 'users.email'))->get();